Sunday, November 29, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Great Cover: Pomplamoose covering MJ's "Beat It"
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
3.5 Year Anniversary!
WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?
Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough...
When they're rich.
And the #1 Favorite is .... Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a truck. |
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Artist of the Day: Whitley
Monday, November 2, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
What Christopher Hitchens Has Learned From Debating Doug Wilson
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The High Cost of Getting Directions
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Autumn is Here!
Friday, October 9, 2009
One Million Frames Per Second
It's a ten minute video, so if you want to fast forward to the "highlights" then skip to about 4:00 and 6:20
Thursday, October 8, 2009
The Lord's Prayer
So here you go!
Friday, October 2, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Great Cover! Paramore -->Kings of Leon
Monday, September 14, 2009
Bits of stuff: Catching Up...Fall '09
1) My mom had to have pacemaker replacement surgery. She's had one for a number of years, and eventually you have to get it replaced; it wasn't a dangerous situation per se...
So she had the surgery, and it went well, but she couldn't seem to recover. She had shortness of breath and felt extremely weak. My dad took her to Urgent Care like four times, and finally they found out that she had some fluid in her heart (apparently caused by one of the parts of the pacemaker). So they drained that fluid, and went back and replaced the part that had caused it, and she recovered really fast after that. As of today, she's home and almost back to 100%.
2) Busy week of ministry at Crossroads! Yesterday we celebrated our third anniversary as a church. We had a great morning of worship and teaching (starting our new study "Sovereign Grace" from the book of Ephesians), a cool slideshow spanning our three year history, and burgers from the In-N-Out truck afterwards! We also gave out our new worship CD that I produced over the past four months or so. (If you want one, leave a comment...)
The same week we had a great Men's Breakfast with over 70 guys! Pastor Dave Hegg came over from Grace Baptist and preached from Psalm 15.
Also last week, I moved my office for the fourth time! We got a lease on the unit directly across the parking lot from our current unit in the Industrial Park. We'll put all our offices over there, and have space for more adult teaching rooms, as well as a dedicated youth room.
We also went over to the Master's College for their "Church Ministry Fair" which is an opportunity for new students to find out about local churches that they can attend while they're at the college.
3) Jess started school over at Village Christian last week. She's entering her third year as a high school English teacher there. She teaches 10th and 11th grade English with an honors class thrown in there somewhere.
This will be her first year teaching that she is NOT also in school herself! She's finished her Masters degree in English, and completed and cleared her California teaching credential, so she's completely done! (I give her a few more years before she wants to go back for a Doctorate, but we'll see...)
This year we're trying to save really carefully so that next year she can take the year off of teaching and give a really concerted effort to her writing. She'd like to try and write and get published in the young adult genre with an adventure story she's working on featuring a deadly virus, gang warfare, a daring rescue, and a world in chaos. I won't say anymore, but yeah, maybe she can get it out there!
Hopefully we get settled into the school year routine quickly, and life gets back to its normal pace (which seems to be increasingly chaotic as it is!).
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Lost in Translation!
Friday, August 21, 2009
Pujols is Legit
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
WorshipGod09 - Pt. 2
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
WorshipGod09 - Pt. 1
Monday, July 13, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Two Days
Here's McKee's performance of the piece.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
I Went To The Michael Jackson Memorial
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
13 Days
Apparently "13 Days" is a phrase commonly used to refer to the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. That year, Cuban and Soviet governments decided to place nuclear missiles on Cuba to protect it from US harassment. When the US discovered this, panic ensued as they tried to remove the missiles. This was one of the moments in during the cold war where we really came close to a nuclear war! CRAZY.
I just finished reading a book called "The Last Oracle" which had a large portion of its plot center around the ruins of the Soviet nuclear age, specifically the disaster at Chernobyl. It's really fascinating stuff; that we can manipulate nature to the point that it becomes highly toxic to our bodies, and that if we are exposed to radioactive materials for long enough, it can kill us!
The areas surrounding that nuclear disaster have suffered long term consequences of that horrible reality. I came across a fascinating, if very sad, photo journalism presentation on the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl which you can find by CLICKING HERE. CLICK HERE for another slide show of the abandoned town of Pripyat which was the little village built to house the workers of the nuclear plant.
In conclusion, here are some 13-day old Labrador puppies:
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
20 Days To Go...
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Talking Animals?
This on the other hand is real!
Search YouTube for "talking animals" and you can easily waste a good half hour...
Patience - Pt 1
I suppose if I really wanted to make the time pass faster, I could try and sleep more. Remember when you were in the car for a long trip, and you were like "ugghhh, this stinks..." and then you fell asleep? Yep, when you woke up, you had that drool all over your face to be sure, but you were THERE! I don't know if I can justify all that extra napping though...I may have to get this mixed martial arts chick to do the same thing to me as she does to this interviewer guy at 4:30...
Friday, June 19, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Resolved 2009 Is Over
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Resolved 2009 is HERE
Here's a video of Bob Kauflin's song "Let Your Kingdom Come" from last year's conference!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Saved By The Bell Reunion
New late show host Jimmy Fallon is trying to get the entire original cast of Saved By The Bell to come on his show for a reunion in honor of their 20th anniversary! This was probably THE coolest show when I was growing up, and at various seasons, I swear you could watch it like five times a day between all the different channels on which it was syndicated.
Friday, June 5, 2009
What a Canker - Part 2
So what I thought was a canker sore, actually ended up being something different! My sore had persevered for over two weeks, and it would alternate getting all puffy and red, and then white and shrively. I thought it best to visit Dr. Gururaja.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Bits of Stuff: May 29th, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Happy Third Anniversary
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Awkward Family Photos
Friday, May 8, 2009
My Biggest Fan: Daniel Jo
Paul -------
I need to share this with you…..Pretty funny man (at least to me).
It just happened…
Daniel was in bath tub, singing all his gospel songs as usual.
He goes “Dadda, Is today Friday?”
I told him “Yes, my son.”
He told me this exact sentence “Can you go to Pau Hooover’s Worship Blog? I wanna listen to new Sunday songs.”
Pretty funny huh? Or is it just me?
Well, have a great Friday evening my friend.
Father of Paul Hoover’s Biggest Fan,
Phil
Friday, May 1, 2009
Mice Attack
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8026865.stm
Thursday, April 30, 2009
YAM Retreat
It was beautiful weather for the weekend: sunny, and clear, but still crisp and cold. We studied through the theme "Lifting the Barriers" and were reminded that there is no one we can't forgive because we have received ultimate forgiveness in Christ Jesus.
Here are some pictures of the trip:
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
What a Canker
Every once in a while my body goes through a lapse of motor skill, and my mouth forgets the well tread boundaries of my teeth. I'll be happily chomping away at some tasty morsel, and my lip will just fly with reckless abandon into the path of my oncoming incisors.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo...
My buddy Peter showed me this Wikipedia article on this famous example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated sentence constructs.
Before you follow this link, let me encourage you to stick with this, and not give up if it seems complicated at first. I would definitely recommend you share this experience with someone in your near vicinity. I would also recommend that you read the article out loud (either one of you). Hopefully it will sink in and have you reeling at just how ridiculous the idea is, and at the same time, how much sense it makes. Just wait until you get to the examples from other languages!!!
CLICK TO EXPERIENCE "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"
Monday, April 6, 2009
Full Time!
I'm really grateful to the people at Crossroads, for how they've loved and accepted me from the beginning, and how much they've encouraged me along the way! I'm grateful to the leadership for being so transparent and up front in their communications, and for trusting me with this position.
So after 1.5 years here, things are going unbelievably great, and I can't wait to see what the future holds.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Recording: Legacy Christian Academy & Enfield
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
My First AA Meeting
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Dreaming Doggies
Maggie was with me at the office last week when she started having a little dream, and she started making some kind of noise. I couldn't figure out if she was excited or scared, but she was breathing really deeply, and it was almost like a long wheezing noise. I wanted to shoot a little video of her on my phone, but the annoying "beep" that the phone does when it starts recording was enough to wake her up enough where she stopped her dream noise.
Oh well.
This poor little guy however, didn't stop at making a little whimper noise...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Mute Math "Typical" Backwards Video
Thursday, February 26, 2009
My Sad Guitar Story
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Valentine's Day '09
Our day went something like this:
We arrived in Reseda at 9:00 am for Valentine's day photos with Lukas Van Dyke, who, if you aren't familiar with his work, is a very gifted photographer, and who is an all-around cool guy. We took photos with him as a part of his "Portraits For Missions" promotion, in which he takes all your photos for free basically, and just asks that you make a donation to missions on your way out. He's uploaded some of the photos from that day (including ours) on his blog that you can find HERE. If you're crazy and want to see our full session (74 photos), click HERE.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Keith Getty Quote
If I've got non-Christian friends coming to church, I'd far rather give them four verses of comparatively heavy theology with some theological words which explain the gospel, than give them twenty repeated words that could be said about your pet horse or your girlfriend."
Bits of Stuff: Recent Arts Intake
If you know me well, you know I don't generally like what is stereotypically considered a "musical." All kinds of exaggerated choreography; insincere, half-witty dialogue; and vibratos so big you could drive a truck through them. Some musicals however, can cut through my cynicism, and Phantom of the Opera is one of them. The themes of Phantom are so dark and tragic, and the characters are rife with conflict, both internal and external. The musical themes are simple and memorable, and pop up with what seems like annoying frequency, but the end result is that they are seared in your memory for all time.
The other cool thing we saw was the stop-animation movie "Coraline" in 3-D. It's billed as a kid's movie, but there are some really dark plot elements. Overall, it's just a visually stunning movie, and the 3-D technology has really come a long way. Apparently though, the story of Coraline (the book that inspired the movie), is a hybrid rip-off of two stories: Grimbold's Other World, and The Button Boy (from some sort of gothic-horror story anthology).
In the movie, they refer to the villain as the "beldam" which is an old word meaning specifically an old or ugly woman, and can generally refer to a witch. As we were driving home, I asked Jess what it was they were calling her, and she proceeded to explain the literary examples of beldams, such as in Shakespeare and what not. After she finished, she said (half to herself) "I know a lot about literature." Apparently she just realized that she cross references everything she encounters in life back to literature. Funny.
Here's the trailer for Coraline
Monday, February 9, 2009
Radiohead @ the 2009 Grammys w/ USC Marching Band
Gwyneth Paltrow is pretty, and she did a great intro:
In case you're wondering, here's what the original sounds like...
Resolved 2009 Trailer
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Foundation Winter Retreat '09
This past weekend was our Youth Group's second annual winter retreat. We drove up to Pine Mountain Club (a little bit West of Frazier Park), and rented out two cabins, and generally had a great time. I drove up Friday night and came back Saturday, as I had to work Sunday morning, but it was a good time to hang out with the students and build relationships with them. Jordan Baker of Grace Brethren Church was the speaker, and he talked to the kids in the morning and evening on Saturday from the life of David. During the day Saturday, we were able to hang out and play cards, go on hikes, play soccer, or just relax, and I even let a few of the girls take some flat irons to my hair. It had been some time since I'd last done this, so it was interesting to see how long my hair had gotten. "Wow, that's a look" was a common response.